Shooting at the 1908 Summer Olympics

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Shooting at the 1908 Summer Olympics in London saw fifteen shooting events. Most of the events were held at Bisley, Surrey while the trap shooting events were held at Uxendon.

Shooting

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[edit] Medal summary

Event Gold Silver Bronze
1000 yd free rifle
details
Great Britain Joshua Millner
Great Britain (GBR)
United States Kellogg Casey
United States (USA)
Great Britain Maurice Blood
Great Britain (GBR)
300 m free rifle
details
Norway Albert Helgerud
Norway (NOR)
United States Harry Simon
United States (USA)
Norway Ole Sæther
Norway (NOR)
Team free rifle
details
Norway Norway (NOR)
Julius Braathe
Albert Helgerud
Einar Liberg
Olaf Sæther
Ole Sæther
Gudbrand Skatteboe
Sweden Sweden (SWE)
Per-Olof Arvidsson
Janne Gustafsson
Axel Jansson
Gustaf Adolf Jonsson
Claës Rundberg
Gustav-Adolf Sjöberg
France France (FRA)
Eugène Balme
Raoul de Boigne
Albert Courquin
Léon Johnson
Maurice Lecoq
André Parmentier
Team military rifle
details
United States United States (USA)
Charles Benedict
Kellogg Casey
Ivan Eastman
William Leuschner
William Martin
Charles Winder
Great Britain Great Britain (GBR)
Arthur Fulton
John Martin
Harcourt Ommundsen
William Padgett
Philip Richardson
Fleetwood Varley
Canada Canada (CAN)
Charles Crowe
William Eastcott
S. Harry Kerr
Dugald McInnis
William Smith
Bruce Williams
Stationary target small-bore
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Great Britain Arthur Carnell
Great Britain (GBR)
Great Britain Harold Humby
Great Britain (GBR)
Great Britain George Barnes
Great Britain (GBR)
Moving target small-bore
details
Great Britain John Fleming
Great Britain (GBR)
Great Britain Maurice Matthews
Great Britain (GBR)
Great Britain William Marsden
Great Britain (GBR)
Disappearing target small-bore
details
Great Britain William Styles
Great Britain (GBR)
Great Britain Harold Hawkins
Great Britain (GBR)
Great Britain Edward Amoore
Great Britain (GBR)
Team small-bore
details
Great Britain Great Britain (GBR)
Edward Amoore
Harold Humby
Maurice Matthews
William Pimm
Sweden Sweden (SWE)
Eric Carlberg
Vilhelm Carlberg
Johan Hübner von Holst
Franz-Albert Schartau
France France (FRA)
Henri Bonnefoy
Paul Colas
Léon Lécuyer
André Regaud
Single-shot running deer
details
Sweden Oscar Swahn
Sweden (SWE)
Great Britain Ted Ranken
Great Britain (GBR)
Great Britain Alexander Rogers
Great Britain (GBR)
Double-shot running deer
details
United States Walter Winans
United States (USA)
Great Britain Ted Ranken
Great Britain (GBR)
Sweden Oscar Swahn
Sweden (SWE)
Team single-shot running deer
details
Sweden Sweden (SWE)
Arvid Knöppel
Ernst Rosell
Alfred Swahn
Oscar Swahn
Great Britain Great Britain (GBR)
Walter Ellicott
William Lane-Joynt
Charles Nix
Ted Ranken
none awarded
Individual pistol
details
Belgium Paul Van Asbroeck
Belgium (BEL)
Belgium Réginald Storms
Belgium (BEL)
United States James Gorman
United States (USA)
Team pistol
details
United States United States (USA)
Charles Axtell
Irving Calkins
John Dietz
James Gorman
Belgium Belgium (BEL)
René Englebert
Charles Paumier du Verger
Réginald Storms
Paul Van Asbroeck
Great Britain Great Britain (GBR)
Geoffrey Coles
Walter Ellicott
Henry Lynch-Staunton
Jesse Wallingford
Individual trap shooting
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Canada Walter Ewing
Canada (CAN)
Canada George Beattie
Canada (CAN)
Great Britain Alexander Maunder
Great Britain (GBR)
Team trap shooting
details
Great Britain Great Britain (GBR)
Peter Easte
Alexander Maunder
Frank Moore
Charles Palmer
James Pike
John Postans
Canada Canada (CAN)
George Beattie
Walter Ewing
Mylie Fletcher
Donald McMackon
George Vivian
Arthur Westover
Great Britain Great Britain (GBR)
John Butt
Harold Creasey
Richard Hutton
William Morris
Gerald Skinner
George Whitaker

[edit] Participating nations

A total of 215 shooters from 14 nations competed at the London Games:

[edit] Medal table

 Rank  Nation Gold Silver Bronze Total
1 Great Britain Great Britain (GBR) 6 7 8 21
2 United States United States (USA) 3 2 1 6
3 Sweden Sweden (SWE) 2 2 1 5
4 Norway Norway (NOR) 2 0 1 3
5 Canada Canada (CAN) 1 2 1 4
6 Belgium Belgium (BEL) 1 2 0 3
7 France France (FRA) 0 0 2 2

[edit] References

  • Cook, Theodore Andrea (1908). The Fourth Olympiad, Being the Official Report. London: British Olympic Association. 
  • De Wael, Herman (2001). Shooting 1908. Herman's Full Olympians. Retrieved on 12 May 2006.